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In order to facilitate literature updates and scholarly syntheses, the eleven (with the addition of the Annex) units of the University at Buffalo Libraries offer access to a combined collection of over 3.6 million books and over 32,000 serials and periodicals (including more than 10,000 periodicals, magazines and newspapers, nearly 6000 government document serials, and more than 22,000 full-text electronic journals). BISON (Buffalo Information System Online), the UB Libraries online catalog, provides information about books, journals, audio-visual materials, government documents, and electronic resources held in or licensed by the Libraries. BISON is available from any computer with access to the World Wide Web and from public library research and cybrary workstations in all of the libraries. The Libraries’ Interlibrary Loan offices have implemented the ILLiad service which allows faculty, staff, and students to submit interlibrary loan requests remotely and to monitor the status of these requests. The system greatly reduces turn-around time for article requests and delivers articles electronically in PDF format to users at their desktops. The University Libraries actively embrace service, information access, the promotion of information literacy, and support of the educational and research missions of the University. Collectively they form a major academic research library that is ranked within the top 60 research libraries in North America (source: Association of Research Libraries).

The Health Sciences Library (HSL) collects materials in the fields of medicine and biomedical sciences, dental medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and the health related professions. HSL is a resource library in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. The Library provides access to about 600 print only periodicals, 5271 health related electronic journals, including titles that are free on the Internet as well as those paid for by HSL, the UB Libraries, or consortia to which the UB Libraries belong. One such consortium is the Library Consortium of Health Institutions in Buffalo, comprised of the University and its teaching hospitals. The Consortium offers a large array of electronic resources through HUBNET (Hospital and University at Buffalo Library Resources Network). This electronic resource includes MEDLINE, CINAHL, and a large variety of full text journals, reference works, and databases. Combined book and journal holdings are in excess of 350,000, including a substantial collection of old and rare books in the History of Medicine Collection. The Digital Media Resources Center provides over 2,500 health sciences audiovisual titles and is home to the Multimedia Development Lab. A subject specialist librarian in nursing provides regularly scheduled onsite consultation hours in the School of Nursing as well as in the library.